Venisin Lanse, Eighth Bloom, has been assigned a problem floret-to-be. And she might just be the right affini for the job. But not all is as it seems… An HDG deconstruction.

Another HDG story on the margins (where all the best ones are). A predatory affini with a touch of sadism and a floret with unclear motives.

The Affini are kind, smart, generous, and always firmly in charge. That’s just how it works. …Right? (A Human Domestication Guide story)

The most interesting stories in a shared universe are those at the margins. Zyzzyva takes the standard Affini/human dynamic and plays with it. The result is excellent.

In the far future territory of Febos, consensual slavery is as normalized as holding hands. Because of post-human technologies, not everyone outside of the territory believes that it’s consensual.

A much nicer and gentler (and more consensual) take on drones than you’ll get from me. There’s some really interesting exploration about the role voluntary slavery could take in a post-capitalist society.

A Terran general faces her fate before an Affini tribunal. An HDG story.

Really good interrogation of the Affini Compact’s incapacity for justice.